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by level 3400 days ago
All of your job postings end with (m/f), what do you mean by that?

Additionally, I've looked at positions in Germany in the past, but I have no fluency in the language. Would that prevent me from being an appropriate candidate?

2 comments

Hi,

our business language is English, there is no need to be worried about German skills. Additionally, we provide our employees with free German courses :)

And yes, m/f is male and female respectively, as previous comment mentions.

(m/f) stands for male or female.

The reason to still state that the job is available to both genders is that the word describing the job is most often masculine.